First published at Women’s Agenda: Barrister builds a Legal AI that thinks like a lawyer
Sydney barrister Laina Chan saw a gap in the market for AI legal tools and sought to fill it — while still continuing her work at the bar. She found that AI tools relied on post-trained language models that draw on a combination of model memory and secondary materials to construct answers. That’s a problem because these […]
First published at Startup Daily: AI legal tech startup MiAI Law raised $2 million
A legal tech startup built by a barrister to use AI reasoning system for case law and legislation has raised $2 million. MiAI Law was founded and designed by practising barrister Laina Chan. After beta testing with lawyers, including international firms and barristers’ chambers, she raised $2 million from family, staff and angel investors in […]
First published at Capital Brief: MiAI Law launches AI-powered legal reasoning for lawyers
The news: MiAI Law has launched its AI-powered legal reasoning platform on the market following beta testing by lawyers and barristers. The context: The launch follows a $2 million funding raise last year backed by global investors including former Citibank and JPMorgan employees. MiAI Law, designed by practicing barrister Laina Chan, applies artificial intelligence directly to case […]
First published at ChannelLife Australia: MiAI Law secures AUD $2 million for AI legal reasoning
MiAI Law has launched an artificial intelligence product for lawyers that it says can show its reasoning step by step, following a AU$2 million funding round completed in five days. The Sydney-based company was founded by practising barrister Laina Chan. The product is positioned as a legal research and analysis system that draws on case […]
First published at Mi3: MiAI Law launches with $A2 million investment, promises to revolutionise legal AI
Artificial intelligence is creeping steadily into the law. Now an Australian start-up claims it can do more than retrieve cases. MiAI Law says it can replicate legal reasoning itself, and investors have rushed to test the proposition. MiAI Law, an Australian AI-driven legal system, has officially launched following a period of beta testing with various […]
Judgement, Humanity, and the Limits of Automation
Artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed the legal profession, compressing hours of research into seconds and surfacing precedent with unprecedented speed. Tasks that once defined junior legal work are now automated, leaving many to question whether human lawyers are becoming secondary to the technology they rely on. Yet for all its power, AI still stops short […]
The Future Lawyer’s Toolkit
Why Critical Thinking, Curiosity, and AI Literacy Will Shape the Next Generation of Legal Practice As artificial intelligence reshapes professional landscapes across industries, the legal profession is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in its history. The future lawyer is emerging at the intersection of human judgment, technological fluency, and a renewed commitment to […]
Building Legal Memory, Preserving Judgement
How AI Will Shape Justice Without Replacing Judges A recent lecture by an Oxford professor specializing in ethics and law has reignited a familiar debate within legal circles: can artificial intelligence ever replace a judge? While the question is often framed as a binary, the discussion revealed a more nuanced reality. AI may never sit […]
The Human Judgement Behind AI Law: Laina Chan on Keeping Lawyers in the Loop
In a recent Xraised interview, host Myles spoke with barrister and CEO Laina Chan about the intersection of law and artificial intelligence and why judgment, ethics, and storytelling still define great lawyers even in an algorithmic age. When asked whether AI can now retrieve and rank every precedent in seconds, Chan made an important distinction: […]
Beyond RAG: How MiAi Law Is Redefining Legal AI
“It’s not that you RAG, it’s where and how you RAG.” That single line from Laina Chan, award-winning barrister and CEO of MiAi Law, encapsulates a profound shift taking place in legal technology. In a recent episode of Xraised, host Myles sat down with Laina to explore the inner workings of retrieval augmented generation, better […]